KiwiDoc: ‹@chattels› very good, been reading your posts and the articles on the Kurds and Turkey all very dynamic and cause for thought
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chattels: ‹@Dianne777› No, a lot of " yin " out there this morning :) Dianne777: hi chattels, dont work to hard it's only Monday ;) chattels: ‹@Dianne777› ‹@Dianne777› indeed, tempo and pace are important Dianne777: well shoot, hoping it was just me darlin KiwiDoc: Barzani's kid is seemingly taking over for dad when it comes to being the spokesperson for the kurds chattels: ‹@KiwiDoc› Massoud has been conveniently / intentionally " on the front lines " for several good political reasons i believe chattels: itis both heroic and avoids the politics of a number of current issues KiwiDoc: ‹@chattels› I find the dynamics of the three sects to be the confounding issue that Abadi has deal with. A task that given the desire of the US to interfere subversively will make the resolution of this complicated to say the least chattels: bbl - keep the faith and your dinar :) whitelions: Hi all so they want Maliki tried but they don't trust they're own courts so off to the international courts they go that kills 2 birds with 1 stone , it gets rid of Maliki and at the same time they can't cry sectarianism!!! whitelions: Iraqi call for an international trial of Nuri al-Maliki ....Picture And that the Iraqi parliamentary committee of inquiry did not reveal in the fall of Mosul,

chattels: BAGHDAD — An Iraqi Russian-made fighter jet accidentally dropped a bomb over a Baghdad neighborhood on Monday, killing at least 12 people on the ground, Iraqi officials said.

The plane — one of several Sukhois used by Iraq in the fight against the Islamic State group was returning to base when the accident happened. Military spokesman, Brigadier General Saad Maan Ibrahim, said that a technical failure caused the Sukhoi jet to malfunction and drop the bomb, which hit a number of houses in the Iraqi capital's eastern neighborhood of New Baghdad.

chattels: HInt - drop the bombs before returning to base and on the target

chattels: " a technical failure caused the Sukhoi jet to malfunction and drop the bomb, ..........."

chattels: WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is making a rare visit to the Pentagon to get an update from military leaders on the campaign against the Islamic State. Obama's meetings follow a wave of weekend airstrikes by the US-led coalition in eastern Syria.

The coalition says it was one of the most sustained aerial operations carried out in Syria to date. Obama has insisted he will not send U.S. troops into combat to fight the Islamic State in Iraq or Syria.

However, he has acknowledged that the US lacks a "complete strategy" for training Iraqi troops to carry out ground missions. Efforts to train Syrian rebels are also sputtering. Fewer than 100 rebels are being trained by the US, far less than the goal of producing 5,400 fighters a year.

chattels: ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Social media accounts associated with the Islamic State have claimed in Monday pre-dawn assaults on the Kurdish Peshmerga west of Kirkuk the jihadists killed several Peshmerga and took one captive. The Peshmerga have since claimed to have defeated the ISIS assault aimed at capturing an important oil facility in the area, but have not released any information about their casualties or the alleged captured Peshmerga.